{"id":28148,"date":"2014-08-26T21:36:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=28148"},"modified":"2014-08-26T21:36:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:36:51","slug":"knee-defender-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/08\/26\/knee-defender-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Does The &#8220;Knee Defender&#8221; Have Legs? (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading about the <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/cops-called-after-fliers-fight-over-seat-recline\">&#8220;Knee Defender&#8221; scuffle<\/a> on board a United Airlines flight, I just had to write a limerick: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fight started on a United Airlines flight because one passenger was using the Knee Defender, a $21.95 gadget that attaches to a passenger&#8217;s tray table and prevents the person in front of them from reclining.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230; A flight attendant asked him to remove the device and he refused. The woman then stood up, turned around and threw a cup of water at him, the official says. That&#8217;s when United decided to land in Chicago. The two passengers were not allowed to continue to Denver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does The &#8220;Knee Defender&#8221; Have Legs? (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;m short, there&#8217;s no room for my knees<br \/>\nWhen I fly, without paying high fees.<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;d never react<br \/>\nWith a tool to contract<br \/>\nSomeone&#8217;s space, just to feel more at ease.<\/p>\n<p>So the use of a plane &#8220;Knee Defender&#8221;<br \/>\nIs offensive to me &#8212; a contender<br \/>\nFor a selfishness prize.<br \/>\nSo women and guys,<br \/>\nIf you try it, I&#8217;ll bitch. You&#8217;ll surrender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading about the &#8220;Knee Defender&#8221; scuffle on board a United Airlines flight, I just had to write a limerick: The fight started on a United Airlines flight because one passenger was using the Knee Defender, a $21.95 gadget that attaches to a passenger&#8217;s tray table and prevents the person in front of them from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,3702,6],"tags":[1574,289,4293,1572,3515,1573,4294,1465,288,4905,1705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28148"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28162,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148\/revisions\/28162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}